Resource Work Cooperative

Resource Work Cooperative is a not-for-profit, self-funding worker’s cooperative based in Hobart, Tasmania. Founded in 1993, we are a diverse and unique cooperative business employing 33 local Tasmanians. We can supply materials for your next renovation or art project, pick up your reusable goods for free or even sustainably deconstruct entire buildings!

We have three main objectives that drive our work:

To create employment

To minimise waste

To promote waste minimisation in the community

We have been running since 1993 and operate the Resource Tip Shop, the Deconstruction service, the Community Pick Up service, Urban Salvage Service, Education Program and the annual Art From Trash exhibition. We also encourage visits by schools and community groups, run stalls at events such as the Sustainable Living Festival, Garage Sale Trail and run workshops for schools and community groups.

Where does our income go?

Employment expenses

Rent

Truck and Forklift maintenance

Art From Trash Exhibition

Electricity

Insurance

Charity

Resource is a not-for-profit, self-funded worker’s cooperative. This means that the business belongs to the people who work there. Our workers volunteer their spare time to attend monthly to general meetings and these meetings decide the running of the cooperative. We practice consensus decision making.

Resource Work Cooperative acknowledges that the Muwinina people of the South East Aboriginal nation were the traditional and original owners of this land. We pay our respects to today’s traditional owners, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community, the palawa people, and to Elders past and present.

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday: 8am - 4pmSaturday - Sunday: 10am - 4pm

contact

Ph 6224 8669 (Tip Shop)

Ph 6223 3891 (Office)

PO Box 98 South Hobart 7004

Where are we?

We are located at the McRobies Gully Waste Management Centre, at the end of McRobies Road in South Hobart.

next open day SAT 27th January10am - 2pm!

Arts Parts is a one stop supply shop brimming with materials suitable for creative projects including art and craft, fashion and jewellery making, event decorations and more! Our supplies are perfect for teachers, artists, parents, community groups and crafty individuals and are available for purchase direct from our onsite Education Centre in South Hobart.

Resource Work Cooperative is looking for a suitable demolition site to trial our Urban Salvage Service on a bigger scale! We are seeking re-use minded demo-teams and a site big enough to house on-site skip bins to collect re-usable materials. Resource will remove your re-usables from site super fast and save them from landfill. It will cost your team just a little time (putting materials in different skip bins) but will save dumping fees and the planet! See our flyer for materials we will accept and get in touch if you're interested!

Resource’s Deconstruction service is a sustainable alternative to building demolition. Our award-winning team can salvage around 90% of materials from buildings, minimizing waste to landfill and providing recycled building materials for sale at the Tip Shop.

Art From Trash is an annual exhibition that encourages the reuse of discarded materials in the production of amazing visual art.

Established in 1993, the ART FROM TRASH exhibition has become an iconic and much loved exposé of creativity. Attracting over 120 artists and 5000 visitors annually, this event has proved itself as a powerful and much needed change agent for a better future.

Resource is committed to promoting waste minimisation in our community. We provide a range of educational opportunities for young and old including Tip Shop tours and creative reuse workshops in our new Education Centre. We are currently launching two new initiatives, the Creative Reuse Education Workshop Package for Tasmanian schools and the community groups and Arts Parts, providing arts and crafts supplies to the public at a heavily discounted rate.

At the Resource Tip Shop, just about everything that has ever been sold is given a second chance from ending up as landfill. We sell a huge range of building materials, books, records, clothing, homewares and much more. You never know what you will find! We also encourage customers to drop off their reusable goods – come and talk to a Resource worker to see what we can take.